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Popular torrent website thepiratebay.org have been reported to mine cryptocurrency from visitors to the site. They first tried doing this at mid September this year but stopped along the way. This time it seems they are for real. According to them, they were experimenting to see if this method of earning can replace the current advertising method used on websites. Apparently the JavaScript code for cryptocurrency mining is embedded into the same code as those used by conventional ads on piratebay, and when these ad code run, the mining code runs also. During this process there is a significant increase in the CPU usage of the visitor’s computer, though they now implement throttling which makes it less likely for visitors to notice the spike in CPU cycles. The big Idea here is that thepiratebay has made no attempt to disclose this information to the website users and hence there is no option to opt out. This may pose a problem to CoinHive, the company that created the miners script,
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